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HARDWOOD KECORD 



March 10, 1917 



=-< MISCELLANEOUS >- 



The Northwestern Wood Products Manufacturing Company, Duluth, 

 Minn., has changed its name to the Bay Excelsior Manufacturing Company. 



The Edward W. Stiles Lumber Company has been incorporated at Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., by Edward W., F. E. and H. F. Stiles, with a capital of 



$30 000. 



The Detroit Wood Prducts Company has succeeded the F. B. Eby Handle 



Company, Detroit, Mich. 



N. A. Eddy, secretary of the Eddy Brothers & Co., Ltd., Bay City, Mich., 

 died recently. 



Voluntary petitions in banliruptcy have been filed by the following: 

 Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. ; the W. H. Wheeler Manufac- 

 turing Company, Bath, N. T., and the Looschen Piano Case Company, 

 Paterson, N. J., and an involuntary petition by the J. C. Neeley Company, 

 Canton, O. 



The hardwood flooring factory of the W. E. Williams Company at 

 Oconto, Wis., completed about two weeks ago, will manufacture 25,000 feet 

 of flooring daily, employing sixty men. 



The death is reported of Byron A. Birdsell, president of the Birdsell 

 Manufacturing Company, South Bend, Ind. 



With A. M. Kirkland. H. A. Williams and J. D. Field as the incorporators, 

 the Southern Dimension Oak Company has been incorporated at Ore City, 

 Texas, with a capital of ?0,000. 



The capital of the Belmont Casket Manufacturing Company, Bellaire, O., 

 has been increased from $100,000 to $300,000, that of the Smeed Box Com- 

 pany, Cleveland, O., from $30,000 to $100,000, while an increase from $100,- 

 000 to $150,000 has been affected by the Globe Folding Box Company, 

 Cincinnati, O. 



The Arthur Bailey Lumber Company, New York, N. Y., has bought out 

 J. J. Forcier, and will carry on its wholesale business, as well as storage 

 and retail yard at 11-17 Richardson street, and 10-16 Bayard street, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., keeping a full line of hard and soft woods, both rough and 

 dressed. 



The Valley City Chair Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., through amended 

 articles of association, has changed its name to the Grand Rapids Fiber 

 Furniture Company, so it would be more appropriate to the line of goods 

 manufactured, namely, "Fiber-Kraft" furniture. John Thwaites is presi- 

 dent and manager ; Charles M. Owne, vice-president ; B. J. Adams, secretary 

 and treasurer, and H. F. Wells, sales manager. 



Among recent incorporations is the Collapsible Crate Manufacturing 

 Company, Houston, Texas. 



The Cordele Variety Works has recently been organized at Cordele, Ga.. 

 to manufacture step ladders, porch swings and plow beams. 



The Manumotors Company, Manitowoc, Wis., is a reorganization of the 

 Kawalle Brothers Company, which will manufacture chain drive motor 

 boats, manumotors and the Eu-re-kar. The company is capitalized at 

 $20,000, and plans to erect a factory and extend operations on a large 

 scale. 



=-< CHICAGO >• 



Taylor & Crate find the weather favorable for the completion of the 

 establishment of their new yard, on which progress was slow last month 

 because of the severe storms. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are completing the construction of a new dock at which 

 it was hoped to land lumber cargoes this coming lake season, but the 

 dredging of the river is not going forward as rapidly as desired, and may 

 be further delayed. 



O. E. Yeager has returned from his several weeks trip to Florida and 

 Cuba. He was in Havana on election, and several days following, and 

 saw something of the revolution. The principal buildings were under 

 guard. 



Cheesman Dodge, who had a wholesale lumber and planing mill business 

 in this city for many years, died at his home here late last month at the 

 age of eighty-seven years. 



J. D. Rounds, a wholesale lumberman of Binghamton for several years, 

 and formerly member of Mixer & Co., this city, died at his home on Feb- 

 ruary 26, aged fifty-eight. He had been ill for several months. A son, 

 Louis G. Rounds, has charge of the business of Mixer & Co., at Albany. 



Garrett E. Lamb, president of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, Charles- 

 ton, Miss., passed through Chicago a week ago last Monday on his way to 

 Clinton. Mr. Lamb came from Washington, and returned in time to join 

 his wife for the inauguration. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb had been in Florida 

 for some time and came up to Washington for the big event. 



Ralph Jurden and J. N. Penrod spent several days in the city last week 

 on business directly connected with Penrod, Jurden & McCowen, Memphis, 

 Tenn., and the Penrod Walnut & Veneer Company, Kansas City, Mo. 



Clarence Boyle, Inc., Lumber Exchange building, has increased its capital 

 stock to $25,000. 



W. Barber, president and treasurer of the Central Locomotive & Car 

 Works, city, died recently. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the International 

 Picture Frame Company. 



The Foster-Munger Company, manufacturer of sash, doors and millwork, 

 has reincorporated with a capital of $100,000. 



The capital stock of the Lincoln Mill Company, Chicago, has been de- 

 creased to $10,000. 



The Lumber Service Corporation, with ofBces in the Peoples Gas building, 

 Chicago, has increased its capital stock to $5,000. 



The recent death is announced of John D. Ross, president of the Brooks 

 & Koss Lumber Company, Schofield, Wis., and of the C. C. Collins Lumber 

 Company, Madison and Rhinelander, Wis. 



Among panel manufacturers present at a conference in Chicago on 

 March 6, were L. P. GrotEman, St. Louis ; D. E. Kline, Louisville ; A. E. 

 Gorham, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. ; F. L. Zaug, New London, Wis. ; E. W. Benja- 

 min, Cadillac, Mich. ; E. V. Knight, New Albany, Ind. 



-■< BUFFALO > 



J. B. Wall, Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company, is spending a short 

 time In the South, looking after the company's production of poplar and 

 cypress, which woods are moving quite freely. 



:< PITTSBURGH >•= 



The Graves Carriage Company, Springboro, Pa., will fit up its plant at 

 once for the manufacture of motor car bodies. 



John E. Du Bois, Du Bois, Pa., last month sold to the Ogden Lumber 

 Company, Ogden. Utah, 300,000,000 feet of standing timber in Oregon, 

 for about $4,000,000. 



The McFarland Lumber Company which, for ten years, has been cutting 

 hardwood and hemlock in the Indian Creek valley near Connellsville, Pa., 

 and has taken off about 700,000 feet of lumber per month during that 

 period, has finished its operations there. The total area cleared was 

 nearly 6,000 acres. 



John Montgomery, vice-president of the American Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company, went to Washington lately to appear as a witness before 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission to fight the increase in freight rates 

 on lumber in the Pittsburgh district. 



The Mayer Wagon Company, 6461 Frankstown avenue, let contract to the 

 Walker-Curley Company of this city for a wagon works to cost $12,000. 



The plant of the F. Thompson Sawmill and Lumber Company, Russell, 

 Pa., was burned February 23, with loss of about $22,000. This was the 

 biggest fire in that town in fifty years. 



Charles S. Morrison, well-known hardwood lumberman, Bradford, Pa., 

 died at his home in that city last Wednesday. He had been engaged In 

 the lumber business for many years. 



The Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association last week elected 

 these officers for this year : President, C. V. McCreight, Ricks-McCreight 

 Lumber Company ; vice-president, E. H. Stoner, West Penn Lumber Com- 

 pany ; secretary-treasurer, J. G. Criste, Interior Lumber Company ; trustee : 

 F. R. Babcock, Babcock Lumber Company ; A. Rex Flinn, Duquesne Lum- 

 ber Company, and A. J. Dicbold, Forest Lumber Company. 



-< BOSTON >•- 



The trade of New England is to make a concerted effort to obtain retention 

 of the transit privileges of holding and diversion which were effective to 

 this district prior to the recent relief prohibitions. The prospect of with- 

 drawal of these arrangements by the respective trunk roads is very dis- 

 concerting to a large portion of the trade and representations of the detri- 

 ment to their business will be made by a number of lumber companies 

 through the Boston Chamber of Commerce, before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission. 



The N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. has notified patrons that immediately effective 

 the embargoes to New England will be cancelled, except cars to or via 

 Boston and Maine points. The New Haven road is also filing notice of 

 the suspension of hold over contracts at all heretofore existing junction 

 points, except Harlem river. 



New enterprises in the New England states include the Norwich Wood- 

 working Company, Norwich, Conn. ; the Merrlmac Lumber Company, Merrl- 

 mac, Mass. ; the Commonwealth Lumber Company, Boston, and the M. & B. 

 Flooring Company, Boston. 



The Federal Lumber Company, 70 Kilby street, Boston, has moved to 

 20 Atlantic avenue. 



=-< BALTIMORE ^- 



Members of the hardwood lumber trade here were greatly interested in 

 the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington on 

 February 27, In suspending the increases in freight rates from Birming- 

 ham, Atlanta, and other points in the Southeast and Mississippi valley to 

 Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and other points in the East. 

 They had protested against the increases as certain to impose serious hard- 

 ships upon the trade, and had pointed out that orders for many millions 

 of feet of lumber had been booked on the basis of the old prices, which 

 would leave them only a small margin of profit, and that if the new 

 rates were allowed to become effective this business would nieiin a positive 

 loss, since labor cost and other items of production, as well as distribu- 

 tion, had gone up. 



Taliaferro & Co., Richmond, Va., filed a peUtion in the United States 

 district court there February 27, asking for the benefit of the bankruptcy 

 law. The assets were given :n the petition at $S4,475, and the llabllitlei 



